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Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren make first campaign appearance together, dub Trump a 'money grubber'

Both Warren and Clinton called Donald Trump an "insecure money grubber" who is driven by hate and greed.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (left) stands with Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Liberal Elizabeth Warren launched a sharp attack on Republican Donald Trump on Monday during her first campaign appearance with US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling him an "insecure money grubber" who is driven by greed and hate.

Warren, a leader of the party's progressive wing and a potential vice presidential pick, said Clinton had spent her career fighting for liberal values while wealthy real estate developer Trump was focused on bolstering his bottom line.

The populist US senator from Massachusetts appeared with Clinton before a rowdy, enthusiastic crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio, targeting a battleground state in a potential preview of a Clinton-Warren campaign team. She repeatedly accused Trump of looking out for himself instead of for average Americans.

"When Donald says he'll make America great, he means greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump," Warren said, standing shoulder to shoulder with a cheering Clinton. Clinton has struggled to win over some liberal backers of rival Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist US senator from Vermont, since beating him for the Democratic nomination earlier this month. She hopes the support of Warren can help her in that task as she campaigns against Trump for the Nov. 8 election.

Warren, who has vigorously attacked Trump in recent weeks, called him "a small, insecure money grubber who fights for no one but himself" and warned: "He will crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants. That's who he is."

The capacity crowd repeatedly roared its approval, and a line of supporters who could not get inside stretched out the door and down the street. At one point, Warren stopped her speech to turn and applaud former Secretary of State Clinton.

"She knows what it takes to beat a thin-skinned bully who is driven by greed and hate," said Warren, who is known for her populist rhetoric calling for reining in Wall Street and eradicating income inequality.

In a statement, Trump called Warren "a sellout" for backing Clinton, who has taken donations from Wall Street interests and once backed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Asian trade deal. Clinton has since reversed her trade stance.

"As Clinton tries to salvage support among the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has become a turncoat for the causes she supposedly supports," the Trump campaign said in a statement.

'UNDER DONALD TRUMP'S SKIN'

Once she took the microphone in Ohio, Clinton made it clear she liked Warren's aggressive approach to her Republican rival, who has sprayed rivals and critics with insults throughout his campaign.
"I just love how she gets under Donald Trump's skin," Clinton said.

Clinton's decision to campaign with Warren for the first time in Cincinnati, a city on Ohio's southwestern border with Kentucky and Indiana, underscored the swing state's vital role in the November showdown with Trump.

Warren's rhetoric about breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and reining in corporate excess could resonate with two groups Clinton must court in the election - Sanders supporters and those anxious about the economy who are drawn to Trump's promise to toss out international trade deals.

Ohio's manufacturing base has taken a hit in recent economic slowdowns, and Trump has identified it as a state where his anti-free trade rhetoric could resonate with alienated blue-collar voters. Ohio has backed every successful presidential nominee since 1964 and no Republican has won the White House without carrying the state.

Debra Loeb, 53, of Blue Ash, Ohio, said she hoped Warren could give Clinton's candidacy a boost if she is chosen as the vice presidential nominee. "I think Hillary should do whatever is good for her, but I support her," Loeb said of Warren as a potential running mate.

Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, Clinton has repeatedly tried to portray businessman Trump as fundamentally unfit for the presidency. Clinton said Warren's long history of fighting for progressive economic values made her a perfect messenger for that critique of Trump.

"She exposes him for what he is - temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States," Clinton said. In recent days, Clinton's campaign has accused Trump of caring more about how Britain's referendum vote last week to leave the European Union would benefit him financially than how it would impact the US economy. Trump's campaign said the historic vote showed Trump was in sync with a global sentiment of economic frustration and Clinton was out of step.

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